Our Director Professor Peter Dwyer gave evidence in person on behalf of our project to the Commons Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into benefit sanctions today (20 June).

He told MPs that welfare conditionality does not move disabled people into work – ‘so we should concentrate on support’. Benefit sanctions for this group are inappropriate, he said, and should be ended.

Benefit sanctions for Universal Credit recipients who are in work are also inappropriate, Professor Dwyer said.